The L. Kanishchenko Library of WUNU is an important structural division of the university that supports the educational, research and cultural activities of educators and students. The Library’s mission is to create, accumulate, organize its own resources and preserve global information resources that meet the requirements of the educational process and research work at the university, implementing the institution’s educational and scientific processes in accordance with European educational standards, by providing quality and prompt access to the information space for both local and remote users.
The history of the library is inseparably connected with the history of the university, and it began in 1966, when a branch of the Finance and Economics Faculty of the Kyiv Institute of National Economy was opened in Ternopil. From 1971 it became the library of the Ternopil Finance and Economics Institute, from 1989 – the library of the Ternopil Institute of National Economy, from 1994 – the library of the Ternopil Academy of National Economy, and from 2005 – the library of the Ternopil State Economic University. In 2006, the university received National status, and the library within its structure appeared in a new functional quality.
Initially, it was a small collection of publications transferred from the Kyiv Institute of National Economy, which was organized by Stefania Hudyma (1966). Soon the library already had 30,000 copies of literature. Two specialists worked there: the first head of the library, Bohdan Havrylovych Bahriy (1967-1972), and librarian Maria Andriivna Halushchak, who was also the deputy director from 1980 to 1996. Volodymyr Dmytrovych Zhavoronko (1972-1977) was the head of the library at the Ternopil Finance and Economics Institute. With the increase in the number of students and the emergence of new disciplines, new departments were created in the library structure: scientific processing and acquisition of literature, reference and bibliographic department, and lending departments for educational, scientific, and fiction literature. The staff expanded accordingly.
In 1970, library catalogs began to be created. The organization of the systematic catalog was based on the Library Bibliographic Classification for scientific libraries (LBC). The chronological framework of the reflected literature begins from 1860.
From 1977 to 1992, Izofatova Lydia Boleslavivna was in charge of the library. She organized the team to fulfill planned tasks, conduct interesting and meaningful activities among readers, and implement new forms and methods of work.
In 1980-1986, the library fund grew tremendously, thanks to donated books, exchange funds, and allocated funds for the purchase of literature, which was ordered through the library collective according to thematic plans. Understanding the importance of the library as an important factor in the development of science, teachers and scientists of the university took direct part in the formation of the fund.
In 1980, according to the order of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the USSR No. 1270, the library of the Ternopil Finance and Economics Institute was approved as the city methodological center for libraries of higher educational institutions in Ternopil, which contributed to the development of scientific activities. The library provides methodological assistance to departments in improving forms and methods of information and bibliographic services, conducts scientific and methodological (analytical, organizational and consultative) work to improve all areas of library activities; ensures professional development of employees, develops technological and regulatory documents that regulate production processes and labor activities.
A significant contribution to the development of librarianship at TNEU was made by: L.V. Snigurska, L.G. Ostapiyenko, M.S. Bezpalko, Ye.A. Babiy, V.P. Likhota, N.I. Chygyr, N.V. Mykula, and others.
Since 1992, the library has been headed by Associate Professor, Candidate of Economic Sciences Kazymir Zinoviyovych Voznyi. As a university graduate, he put a lot of effort, knowledge, and energy into elevating the library to the level of modern information technologies.
In 1994, the library changed its status: it supported the scientific activities of the Ternopil Academy of National Economy – a higher education institution of university type. The growth of the university expanded the range of tasks facing the library. The emergence of new institutes dictated the need to create reading rooms and replenish book collections. Libraries were also created at branches and structural subdivisions in Vinnytsia, Chortkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Novovolynsk, Svalyava, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Kalush, Lutsk, Foros, and Yerevan.
In 1996, a foreign literature library was established at the Institute of International Business and Management, with a collection of about 15,000 copies in English, German, French, Bulgarian, and other languages.
The collection of books donated to the library by I. Gebler, a professor at J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), is invaluable: 2,462 books in German and English. Many textbooks were donated by the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society in Chicago (USA). Another 400 books were added to the library’s collection thanks to the Rotary Club. 240 books came from Chicago from Professor Y. Komarynskyi of Northern Illinois University.
In 1998, the reading room of the Law Institute was created. The book collection is equipped with literature (over 17,000 copies) from all academic disciplines studied by future lawyers.
In March 2002, the reading room of the Center for European and International Studies began operating. This book collection, used by almost 2,000 readers, has over 9,000 copies and offers a wide selection of newspapers and magazines.
In 2004, the reading room of the Ukrainian-German Faculty was opened. The collection includes over 6,000 copies.
On October 25-27, 2002, the staff of the scientific library hosted colleagues from the Aarhus Business School (Denmark). On this occasion, an expanded meeting of the regional methodological association of university libraries in Ternopil was held, attended by the director of the Aarhus Business School Library, Tove Bang, project consultant Lana Jansen, librarian Lars Lond-Thomsen, directors of city university libraries, and TANG library staff.
From December 2002, the library began implementing computer technologies in all library, information, and management processes based on the “UFD/Library” software. Throughout 2003, it was intensively used in “service mode.” A local network was created with 56 computers and its own powerful server, connected to the university-wide network with Internet access.
Thanks to the financial and organizational support of the TEMPUS project, in 2003 the Internet portal of the Aarhus Business School library was opened, and in January 2004, a set of barcode equipment was purchased, allowing the library to begin serving readers in an automated mode.
The “Article Catalog” database has been maintained since 2004 and provides analytical descriptions of periodicals from Ukraine and Russia, including periodicals in Ukrainian and Russian languages.
Since September 2004, the library has moved to using the basic functional format of electronic library resources with partial access to a full-text database of methodological documents.
The university library has been and remains a center of knowledge amid the rapid development of the information industry. The main directions of the library’s activities during this time were led by leading specialists A.V. Panchuk, M.A. Palyukh, U.Yu. Ivashkiv, O.P. Barvinska, L.A. Vashchyshyn, and L.I. Protasevych.
The introduction of progressive technologies has led the library to a new level of information service. In 2005, a computer room with 20 more places was opened, where it is possible to use the basic services of the library, as well as the Internet. In 2006, another computer room with 50 places was opened.
Today, the library is a powerful information institution, a scientific information and educational center of the university. In order to improve the methodological management of libraries of higher educational institutions of III and IV accreditation levels, by Order of the Ministry of Education and Science No. 27 dated January 20, 2005, the library of the Ternopil Academy of National Economy was assigned the duties of a regional methodological center. The library continues to provide methodological guidance to university libraries in the city, compiles annual and long-term work plans, studies and disseminates experience, progressive forms, and methods of library service to readers. The library has repeatedly been a participant and base for scientific events, in particular from October 10 to 13, 2011, the Scientific and Methodological Library Commission and the M. Maksymovych Scientific Library of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University held an inter-zonal meeting of directors of university libraries of III-IV accreditation levels on “Management of University Libraries in Modern Conditions” at the TNEU library. More than 80 people took part in the meeting: heads and leading specialists of university libraries, representatives of publishing houses. The participants heard a report by the director of our library, K.Z. Voznyi, “Synergetics of Information Interaction as a Tool of Library Marketing.”
Meeting participants were directly acquainted with the work of our university library.
Library collections are a strategic resource for university development, the basis of the multifaceted work of the university library system. The information potential of the library collection is the foundation of the scientific, educational, and educational processes of the university, a universally accessible and universal source of information in content. The library collection is in constant dynamics, being updated, and the library ensures its active use and storage. Every year the library receives more than 10,000 copies of publications. Thanks to systematic analysis and the painstaking and persistent work of the staff of the acquisition department, a high-quality and balanced collection was formed. Today, the library system of the university has over 500,000 printed publications, including 38,000 copies of periodicals, in socio-political, economic, natural, legal, humanitarian, and other fields, represented in many languages of the world. The collection includes monographs, scientific periodicals, materials from scientific conferences, unpublished publications (dissertations, abstracts), textbooks, and methodological materials. An important component is the reference and bibliographic collection of the library: encyclopedias, general and industry reference books, and bibliographic indexes. The electronic resource of the library is in permanent development. The collection of electronic publications is over 1,500 titles. The library has digitized about 7,000 pages of documents. This database contains information representing the scientific and educational-methodological work of 1,030 university scientists.
The library has 3 lending departments and 8 reading rooms with 270 seats, including 2 electronic resource rooms. Every year it serves over 10,000 readers, and the total book circulation reaches up to 700,000 copies.
Effective operation of the university library is impossible without information-analytical and scientific activities. Library staff began their scientific work with the creation of card catalogs for the book collection back in 1970. For quick document search, the library operates a system of traditional and electronic catalogs (EC). The introduction of innovative library technologies has led to improved information and bibliographic services. First of all, it has become more accessible and operational. With the availability of an electronic catalog (2002), the search for necessary information is greatly simplified, as this catalog combines the functions of systematic, alphabetical catalogs, and systematic card indexes of articles. The EC, which fully reproduces all types of publications, has about 300,000 descriptions and provides the possibility of multi-criteria search by author, title, words from the title, UDC code, types of documents, language, publisher, year of publication, etc.; contains information about the number and availability of free copies, about the distribution and location of the publication.
Later, the scope of scientific work expanded. Leading library specialists participate in webinars, international, national, and regional seminars, scientific conferences, presentations on library work issues, inform university teachers and graduate students on relevant issues, participate in sociological research, and develop regulatory documentation. In order to popularize the image of the university and library and provide information support to users, the publication of bibliographic indexes dedicated to the scientific activities of leading university scientists, individual faculties, and departments was initiated. The library has compiled and published the following bibliographic indexes:
- Bibliographic index of scientific works of TANG teachers (1990-1997) / resp. for issue K.Z. Voznyi. – Ternopil: Economic Thought, 1999. – 132 p.
- Scientific works of teachers of the Faculty of Economics and Investment Management: bibliogr. index / comp. O. Fetsio. – Ternopil: Economic Thought, 2006. – 80 p.
- Scientific works of teachers of the Faculty of Banking Business: bibliogr. index / comp. L. Strutynska, V. Hryskiv. – Ternopil: TNEU, 2008. – 120 p. – (To the 30th anniversary of the Faculty of Banking Business of TNEU).
- Scientific works of teachers of the Department of Economic Analysis and Statistics (to the 40th anniversary since foundation): bibliogr. index / comp. V. Hryskiv, N. Pisotska, G. Filipovska. – Ternopil: TNEU, 2011. – 80 p.
- Scientific works of teachers of the Department of Taxes and Fiscal Policy: bibliogr. index / comp. V. Hryskiv, L. Oliynyk, A. Panchuk, N. Pisotska, G. Filipovska. – Ternopil: Economic Thought, 2012. – 75 p. – (To the 10th anniversary since foundation).
- Scientific works of teachers of the Department of Documentation, Information Activities and Ukrainian Studies: bibliogr. index / comp. V. Hryskiv, N. Pisotska, L. Oliynyk, L. Smakous, G. Filipovska. – Ternopil: TNEU, 2015. – 122 p.
In the Series “Scientists of TNEU” biobibliographic indexes have been compiled and published:
- Here is our history, our honor and glory: bibliogr. index (To the 55th anniversary of the birth of Roman Mykhailovych Mateiko – historian, scientist, local historian) / comp. O. Fetsio; resp. for issue K. Voznyi. – Ternopil: Economic Thought, 2001. – 32 p.
- My fate is merged with Ukraine. Volodymyr Vykhrushch: biobibliogr. index / ed. O. Fetsio; resp. for issue K. Voznyi. – Ternopil: Econom. Thought, 2003. – (Outstanding scientists of TANG).
- Roman Mykhailovych Mateiko: biobibliogr. index / comp. L. Vashchyshyn; author of intro. article M. Lazarovych. – Ternopil: Economic Thought, 2007. – 60 p. – (Series: “Scientists of TNEU”)
- Saveliev Yevhen Vasylovych (to the 75th anniversary of birth): biobibliogr. index / comp. V.V. Hryskiv, G.A. Filopovska; resp. for issue K.Z. Voznyi; intro. article by the dean of the Faculty of International Business and Management A.M. Tybin. – Ternopil: Economic Thought, 2013. – 39 p. – (Scientists of Ternopil National Economic University).
They also contributed to the compilation of the reference and bibliographic publication “Ternopil National Economic University. History. Achievements. Personalities” / editorial board: S.I. Yuriy, G.P. Zhuravel, M.V. Lazarovych [and others]. – K.: World of Success, 2006. – 336 p.
The library director K.Z. Voznyi initiated the compilation of a series of bibliographic publications “Catalog of works of TNEU teachers.” In particular:
- Catalog of TNEU publications for 2011: bibliograph. guide / comp. V.V. Hryskiv, S.V. Ivasiev, N.P. Lizhanska. – Ternopil: TNEU, 2012. – 28 p. – (Publications of TNEU scientists).
- Catalog of TNEU publications for 2012: bibliograph. guide / comp. V.V. Hryskiv, N.P. Lizhanska. – Ternopil: TNEU, 2013. – 26 p. – (Publications of TNEU scientists).
- Catalog of TNEU publications for 2013: bibliograph. guide / comp. V.V. Hryskiv, N.P. Lizhanska. – Ternopil: TNEU, 2014. – 20 p. – (Publications of TNEU scientists).
- Catalog of TNEU publications for 2014: bibliograph. guide / comp. V.V. Hryskiv, N.P. Lizhanska. – Ternopil: TNEU, 2015. – 28 p. – (Publications of TNEU scientists).
Four issues of this series have already been published, containing bibliographic descriptions of monographs, textbooks, study guides, and collections of scientific conferences. When compiling bibliographic indexes, the maximum possible reliability and completeness of material coverage is ensured. Information about published bibliographic indexes and their full texts can be found on the library’s website.
The development of methodical recommendations, memos, and booklets, which determine the basic principles of independent work of users with the library website, “UFD/Library” software, the structure and schedule of the library and others, is reflected in the topics of scientific research.
The high qualification of the library’s leading specialists allows publishing its own products at the level of modern requirements not only in terms of information content but also aesthetic design.
May 27, 2011 was a special event in the life of the university. The newly built LIBRARY hospitably opened its doors and rose to a new, higher level of its functional activity.
After all, studying at a university is unthinkable without preserving and multiplying information. The library was, is, and will be a place of accomplishing educational and scientific feats. Therefore, the staff of our book collection creates all conditions for the freedom to search, receive, and transmit information and various ideas. In accordance with the requirements of the time, the information function of the library is growing, expanding, and becoming a priority.
Library users received another electronic resources hall with 45 seats, a reading room with 80 seats, and a hall for teachers and graduate students with 16 seats. Reading rooms have been created with open access to all types of information resources. A scientific literature lending department started operating as a separate subdivision. The main purpose of the department is to maximize and promptly meet the information needs of users. The library collection of the scientific lending department has over 100,000 copies of scientific, popular science, and reference literature. All conditions for automated book lending to users have been created in the department.
The library maintains and expands connections with other scientific libraries. In 2013, an International Consortium of educational institutions from Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia was created for the purpose of multilateral cooperation, organization of training, implementation of large-scale scientific projects, and support of good neighborly relations. The TNEU library is part of this international educational project and is part of the Border Universities Network libraries.
On June 27, 2014, a meeting of representatives of the Border Universities Network libraries was held at the Jerzy Giedroyc University Library in Bialystok (Poland). The library of the Ternopil National Economic University was represented at the conference of this International Consortium of educational institutions from Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia by the head of the information and bibliographic department, Valeriia Viktorivna Hryskiv.
The library’s business card in the world information space is its website (https://library.wunu.edu.ua). Over the past year, the number of unique visits to the library’s website has reached over 300,000, the geography of visits includes 105 countries, and the number of views is over a million. Today we are intensively and continuously working on filling our information array and providing WEB access to it. The library is constantly looking for a way to its reader and tries to always be relevant both in content and technologies. Among our newest information services are: virtual reference, electronic document delivery, ON-LINE consultations for readers, and others. In 2015, the library’s institutional repository was transferred to a new software and technical platform DSpace (http://dspace.tneu.edu.ua/jspui/), and in February 2016, our repository was included in the corresponding ranking of the Web of Science scientometric database. The TNEU library is a constant participant in the latest educational and information programs and projects. In particular, we are a participant in the “ELibUkr” project (Electronic Library of Ukraine), a member of the consortium of scientific and educational institutions “e-VERUM,” which opens new opportunities and horizons for us.
The library pays significant attention to socio-cultural work in its activities. The main contingent of library users is young people. In the library, they not only acquire professional knowledge but also join the sources of culture and history of their people. Thanks to this area of work, influence on spirituality, creative development, legal, political, environmental, and labor education, harmonious personality, and conscious citizens of Ukraine is realized. The forms and methods of socio-cultural work of the TNEU library are diverse: round tables, literary and creative meetings, lectures, presentations, hours of spirituality, humanitarian actions, etc. The library has permanent thematic book exhibitions.
But whatever the resources of libraries, equipment with the most modern technology, the most important is the human resource. Today, the library staff consists of about 60 competent specialists. The development of any library, like any institution, depends on the people who work in it, because they are the ones who invest their labor, knowledge, and creative abilities. In today’s conditions, the problem of effectiveness and quality of the system of professional development and retraining of personnel remains. Library staff constantly improve their professional level. In 2012, 20 employees underwent distance learning at the National Academy of Management Personnel of Culture and Arts (Kyiv) and received appropriate certificates.
The university management has repeatedly recognized the work of leading library specialists (S.M. Holda, M.Z. Makohin, H.M. Mokrii, V.V. Hryskiv, K.V. Oliinyk, B.M. Protsyk) with certificates and diplomas for conscientious attitude to their professional duties, active community service, and multiplication of the glorious traditions of the educational institution.
In 2011, M.A. Halushchak and A.V. Panchuk were awarded the honorary title “Honored University Employee.”
The modern librarian is a bibliographer, document specialist, information manager, marketing analyst, specialist in information technology services and means of information, and a knowledge navigator. This definition of a librarian applies to every employee of our team.
From the past to the present (From the history of the library of Ternopil National Economic University 1966-2016): historical essay [Electronic resource] / Ternopil National Economic University, library; comp. K.Z. Voznyi; intro. word K.Z. Voznyi; editorial board: A.V. Panchuk [and others]. – 2016. – 154 p.